Chapter 224 Shopify Guide
Shopify Guide helps you navigate Shopify and Shopify POS Connect in Big Business.
Big Business can import customers, orders, and invoices from Shopify + Shopify POS.
Gemini Billing
Gemini Billing is challenging--levied per-use of Gemini API--except when it is free-tier.
Gemini Endpoint
Gemini Endpoint lets you set the address that is needed to connect to the Gemini API.
Gemini Settings found in Company card, Connect Settings tab let you enter the details:
• Description lets you put a name to differentiate multiple entries
• Endpoint is the address of the service
• Project is an optional name Google lets you have for billing
• API Key is the required key assigned for access and billing
Image Relevance
Image relevance may be an issue if your text is relevant but not explicit about a subject.
Margarita Jilly Jellies has a zesty description that conjurs an image of drink not candy.
Image Improvisation
Image Improvisation help generate nice images from your descriptions despite brevity.
Considering this result may promote planning better description for consistent images.
Image Tool
Image tool helps you select or create a new image using an AI solution and past images.
To start this tool is a button on the Item card that works with Gemini to create images. It sends the existing image and description to use to generate the new image and shows.
This setup is for testing and uses paid services for images within Google Workspace. It appears an image from a prompt is 3.9 cents and uploading an existing image is 33.9.
Image Create
Image Create helps you make a new image using AI and a text description you provide.
BigBusiness can send a request like, Create a picture of, plus your Detail Description. In the example the words, beach blanket babylon, were used and AI created this image.
Nano Banana
Nano Banana is a codename for Gemini Flash Image--AI to help create and edit images.
BigBusiness tests Nano Banana using free connection and apparent per-image charges.
Pictured, the banana is modified with the prompt to "make old-timey" which succeeds.
Image Retouch
Image Retouch helps you gussy up your blah images using AI to add lettering or style.
BigBusiness can connect to Gemini for pay-per-image re-imaging using new Image tool. This requires setup of Gemini connection and billing and so forth, to work with a click.
Not frictionless but amazingly easy to take a product photo and add lettering or style.
Gemini Profile
Gemini Profile helps share your settings for using Google Gemini including API Keys.
Gemini Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, is a Google AI that converts text into an image. Image tool on the Item card requires setup including getting your API Keys to process.
BigBusiness 16
BigBusiness 16 is updated along with BigBusiness 15, to support new iPad Orders 16.
In BigBusiness you select the Customers and Items to have to order in iPad Orders 16. Sync and your iPad is loaded and ready to process orders with or without connections.
Once you have your orders connect from wherever you have network access and sync. New Orders are created, Customers are updated, and any new data needed is retrieved.
iPad Server
iPad Server lets you connect iPads securely to your BigBusiness to create new orders.
Setup lets you set iPad Server to run automatically on a selected Port to connect iPads.
iPad Scanner
iPad Orders lets you use bluetooth scanner for reading barcodes or labels for fast entry.
Warehouse Quantities
Warehouse Quantites lets you search stock at multiple locations just like Items Search.
If you don't see the Whse Qtys button on Items toolbar you are not using Warehouses.
Landed Updating
Landed Updating shows you the newest landed costs on new transactions like Orders. Later when the order is converted to an Invoice the newest Landed Costs are included.
Once new Landed Costs are added in the new transaction they are saved for reference. The Landed Costs in the Order stay the same, while in the new Invoice they are new.
Saved Invoices show the Landed Cost that was updated when the invoice was created.
AWS Installing Server
Installing Big Business Server on AWS is the same as for a local computer but remote.
Remote into Windows Server, run the Edge browser, and go to https://bigbusiness.com. On the Download tab, click Windows Server, wait, and click ellipsis... to choose Keep. Show More, Keep Anyway, wait, and click Open File. Run the Installer and Finish.
Start Big Business Server from its Shortcut on the Desktop and follow the prompts to open a copy of your Data File, or the Demo File found in the Program Files folder. Wait once more for a minute while it compresses files. Waits are disk use, now done.
AWS Installing Client
Installing Big Business Client is the last step to connecting to a Big Business Server.
On you local client computer open a browser, go to https://bigbusiness.com and on the Download tab click on Mac Client, Windows Client, or Client SDI (multiple window). For Security, on the Mac go to System Preferences, Security and click Open Anyway. For Windows, click the Ellipsis ..., Keep, Show More, Keep Anyway, and Open File.
Run Client, wait for the Connect dialog and on the Custom tab enter a Name and the Public IP Address of your AWS Server. Contact support@bigbusiness.com for help.
Free Trial
Free Trial lets you turn on Ecwid Connect to test with a Free Trial of Ecwid Business.
Presumably, Ecwid still lets you try all features in a free trial including API integration. If purchasing you need their Business Plan to include API and license for Big Business.
To try Ecwid, sign up for a trial, turn on Free Trial in Big Business, and use Automatic settings to bring in new Customers and Orders. Email support@bigbusiness for help.
To Register Ecwid Connect:
1. Go to System toolbar, Company card, and click Upgrade.
2. Click Ecwid to open the Registration dialog.
3. Enter your Registration code and click Continue
--OR--
3. Click Free Trial
4. Click OK on the Thank You! dialog.
5. Click OK to Save the Company card.
6. Quit and restart Big Business Client.